I put a hand-rail just below armpit height when I am sitting so I have a steady rest in every direction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But I'd never caught her out - mind you, that meant nothing, for she'd never caught me, and I had had more than would make a hand-rail round Hyde Park. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
Martin Klevinger—leaning against a hand-rail pole in the middle of the buss—nodded back to the driver and turned back to the pages of notes he was taking on a large, yellow clipboard. ❋ Meredith Greene (2010)
A strong scent of camomile and peppermint pervaded the yard and the poor little dwelling at the side, which you reached by a short ladder, with a rope on either side by way of hand-rail. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There were lovely oak runners underneath it all, and the risers were later painted white. 25 years later, she's still in the same house, and, except for repainting the risers and adding a hand-rail, the stairs are the same. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With one hand he clutched at the hand-rail, then with both. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Raut gripped the hand-rail tightly, and stared down at the cone. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Nora stared at him wide-eyed, her fingers tightening nervously on the moving hand-rail. ❋ Napier, Susan (2006)
For now the man was taking long strides over the worn-out planks of the bridge, disdaining the hand-rail, and looking upward, as if to shun sight of the footing. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
And after another bend in the stair, he clinging fast to the iron hand-rail, he had ignominiously to give in and descend again: backwards, too! ❋ Unknown (2003)
The milkman left a bottle of milk standing in a clay pipe there each morning, so that the trickle of water kept it cool, and the section of footpath with a hand-rail ran behind the pond, to give dry footing when the pond brimmed over in winter and covered the road. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (2002)
Side-protection at the outer string can also be achieved by bars which are in parallel with the hand-rail. ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
The hand-rail is to be designed so as to permit easy gripping of it and convenient sliding on it. ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
The tenon in the railing bar is spot-faced to avoid back-mortising in the hand-rail, outer string or baseboard. ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
Figure 20 - Stair railing with vertical railing bars - 1 outer string, 2 bottom step, 3 head step, 4 bottom post, 5 head post, 6 hand-rail, 7 vertical railing bar ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
Protection between the hand-rail and the outer string can be achieved by unprofiled or profiled vertical railing bars. ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
Figure 21 - Representation of the mortise-and-tenon joints of the railing bars - 1 outer string, 2 hand-rail, 3 underside of the handrail, 4 railing bar (profiled), ❋ Rolf Becher (1993)
